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- the present invention relates to a system for conversion of a first electromagnetic field to a desired second electromagnetic field, for example for coupling of an electromagnetic field into an electromagnetic waveguide.
- the butt coupling is a direct coupling Wherein the fiber is brought close to the light source.
- the butt coupling provides only about 10% efficiency for a laser, as it makes no attempt to match the mode sizes of the laser and the fiber.
- the laser mode size may be about 1 ⁇ m and the mode size of a single mode fiber may be in the range 6-9 ⁇ m.
- the coupling efficiency may be Improved by tapering the fiber end and forming a lens at the fiber tip.
- the coupling efficiency can exceed 70% for a confocal design in which a sphere is used to collimate the laser light and focus it onto the fiber core.
- the alignment of the fiber core is less critical for the confocal design because the spot size is matched to the fiber's mode size.
- phase of a first order mode does not vary over the fiber cross-section, rather it fits with an electromagnetic field with a symmetric phase and amplitude wave front, such as the electromagnetic field in a light beam emitted by a laser.
- the phase distribution of a second-order mode is usually symmetric in magnitude but changes sign about a symmetry axis of the fiber, and for higher order modes the phases change sign several times across the cross-section of the fiber.
- the incident electromagnetic beam is typically focused on a part of the cross-section of the fiber, namely an area within which the phase does not change sign. This limits the obtainable coupling efficiency to a value that is roughly equal to the ratio between the illuminated area and the total cross-sectional area of the fiber core. This may be seen by the overlap integral (or inner product) between the two mode plots.
- a cross-section of the fiber exhibits holes arranged in an array like atoms in a crystal, hence the name crystal fibers also known as microstructured or holey fibers.
- the dielectric may be silica, doped silica, polymers, etc.
- the holes are arranged in a photonic crystal with band gaps wherein no modes can propagate through tho fiber.
- a spatial region with optical properties different from the surrounding bulk photonic crystal can be created. If such a defect region supports modes with frequencies falling inside the forbidden gap of the surrounding full-periodic microstructure, these modes will be strongly confined to the defect. It is important to note that it is not a requirement that the defect region has a higher index than its surroundings. If the surrounding material exhibits photonic band gap effects, even a low-index defect region is able to confine light and thereby act as a highly unusual waveguide.
- the defect may be an air filled tube that may provide—in theory—no loss guidance over long distances.
- photonic crystal fibers may support single mode operation in a larger wavelength range than conventional fibers. e.g. from UV light to mid-infrared wavelengths, i.e. the entire wavelength range where silica can be used, and that photonic crystal fibers can be designed with a very flat near-zero dispersion over a very broad wavelength range. Further, photonic crystal fibers may be produced with very large positive dispersion for single-mode operation, This may be utilized for dispersion management in fiber systems with negative dispersion or vice versa.
- Photonic crystals are structures having a periodic variation in dielectric constant.
- the dielectric may be silica, doped silica, polymers, etc.
- the properties of the photonic band gap can be designed to specific applications.
- the central wavelength of a photonic band gap is approximately equal to (in order of magnitude) the periodicity of the photonic crystal and the width of the photonic band gap is proportional to the differences in dielectric constant within the photonic crystals,
- J. D. Joannopoulos et al. Photontic Crystals, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995.
- a localized electromagnetic mode having a frequency within a photonic band gap may be supported.
- a three-dimensional photonic crystal formed by dielectric spheres at the sites of a diamond lattice the absence of a sphere produces a defect In the immediate vicinity of the absent sphere, the photonic crystal is no longer periodic, and a localized electromagnetic mode having a frequency within the photonic band gap can exist.
- This defect mode cannot propagate away from the absent void, it is localized in the vicinity of the defect.
- the introduction of a defect into the photonic crystal creates a resonant cavity, i.e. a region of the crystal that confines electromagnetic radiation having a specific frequency within the region.
- a series of defects can be combined to form a waveguide within the photonic crystal.
- Such waveguides in photonic crystals can include sharp turns, such as 9° bends substantially without loss.
- U.S. Pat. No. 5,526,449 discloses waveguides based on photonic crystals for incorporation into opto-electronic integrated circuits.
- the crystal fibers previously mentioned are examples of two-dimensional photonic crystals with electromagnetic mode supporting defects.
- a large variety of design options is available to the designer of crystal fibers. By careful selection of preform tube geometry, tube density, tube positions, and utilization of tubes of different types in the same fiber, the designer can provide waveguides with desired characteristics, such as transmission loss, dispersion, non-linearity, mode structure, micro- and macro-bend loss, etc. Examples of various designs are disclosed in WO 99/64903, WO 99/64904, and WO 00/60390.
- Examples of one-dimensional photonic crystals are given in U.S. Pat. No. 6,130,780 disclosing an omni-directional reflector with a surface and a refractive index variation along the direction perpendicular to the surface so that a range of frequencies exists defining a photonic band gap for electromagnetic energy incident along the perpendicular direction to the surface
- the structure further fulfils a criterion by which no propagating states may couple to an incident wave and thus the dielectric structure acts as a perfect reflector in a given frequency range for all incident angles and polarizations.
- an all-dielectric coaxial waveguide is disclosed that is designated a coaxial omniguide and that is based on the omni-directional dielectric reflector disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,130,780.
- the radial confinement of the light in the coaxial omniguide is a consequence of omni-directional reflection and not total internal reflection. This means that the coaxial omniguide can be used to transmit light around much sharper corners than the optical fiber.
- the radial decay of the electromagnetic field in the coaxial omniguide is much greater than in the case of the optical fiber so that the outer diameter of the coaxial omniguide can be much smaller than the diameter of the cladding layer of the optical flber without leading to cross-talk.
- a microstructured waveguide designates a one-, two- or three-dimensional photonic crystal with defects for propagation of an electromagnetic field and optionally with interstitial voids, such as index-guided crystal fibers, photonic band gap crystal fibers, coaxial omniguides, polymer optical fibers, polymer crystal fibers, hole assisted light guide fibers (e.g. as disclosed in “Modeling and design optimization of hole-assisted lightguide fiber by full-vector finite element method”, by T. Hasegawa et. al. Proc. 27 th Eur. Conf. On Opt Comm. ECOC'01 —Amsterdam), hollow optical fiber (e.g.
- waveguides in integrated optical circuits such as photonic crystal based planar waveguides, a slab waveguide structure, etc, a surface plasmon polariton based waveguide, resonators, coupled cavity waveguides, coupling resonator optical waveguides, photonic Wire waveguides (ie. very tightly confined waveguides), couplers, power spiltters, combiners, e.g. 3 dB couplers, etc.
- a microstructured waveguide may transmit an electromagnetic field passively, or may form part of an active component, e.g. a rare earth doped fiber amplifier, such as an Er doped fiber amplifier, an Yb doped fiber amplifier, etc, a Raman amplifier, a Brilouin amplifier, etc.
- an active component e.g. a rare earth doped fiber amplifier, such as an Er doped fiber amplifier, an Yb doped fiber amplifier, etc, a Raman amplifier, a Brilouin amplifier, etc.
- phase of the propagating electromagnetic field or wave changes sign at least once across the cross-section of the waveguide.
- a mode is typically excited by focusing an incident light beam on an area of the waveguide end within which the phase does not change its sign.
- a graded index fiber such as a parabolic index fiber, e.g. a multimode parabolic index fiber.
- At least one of the fields may match a mode of a microstructured waveguide.
- the first electromagnetic field may be emitted from an output end of the microstructured waveguide.
- a light beam emitted by a semiconductor laser may be converted into a second electromagnetic field that matches a mode of a microstructured waveguide.
- an electromagnetic field is said to match a mode of a microstructured waveguide when the electromagnetic field in question can excite the mode of the waveguide with a coupling efficiency that exceeds the ratio between an area of the cross-section of the waveguide within which the phase of the mode in question does not change its sign and the entire cross-section of propagating region of the waveguide.
- the matching field is substantially equal to the field of the mode in question.
- the power of the incident beam may be coupled into one specific mode and not others whereby a high mode suppression ratio may be achieved.
- the electromagnetic radiation may be of any frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e. the gamma frequency range, the ultraviolet range, the visible range, the infrared range, the telecommunication band or bands, the far infrared range, the X-ray range, the microwave range, the HF (high frequency) range, etc.
- the electromagnetic radiation is generated by a coherent source of electromagnetic radiation, such as a laser, a semi-conductor laser, a strained multi-quantum well laser, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a maser, a phase-locked laser diode array, a light emitting diode, a pulsed laser, such as a sub-picosecond laser, etc.
- a coherent source of electromagnetic radiation such as a laser, a semi-conductor laser, a strained multi-quantum well laser, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a maser, a phase-locked laser diode array, a light emitting diode, a pulsed laser, such as a sub-picosecond laser, etc.
- a high pressure arc lamp such as a Hg lamp, a Xe lamp etc, may also be used and even an incandescent lamp may be used as a source of electromagnetic radiation.
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may modulate an impinging field by reflection, refraction, or diffraction or any combination hereof, Further, the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may modulate phase, amplitude, polarization, or mode field diameter, or any combination hereof.
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may comprise a refractive element, such as a refractive element with a surface structure providing the desired phase modulation, e.g. a surface etched structure, or a lenslet array, a ball lens, a semi-ball lens, an aspheric lens or a lens that is not circular symmetric, an-amorphic optics, mirrors that are deformed to provide the desired phase modulation, a refractive phase plate, a GRIN (graded index) material, beamsplitter, etc.
- a refractive element such as a refractive element with a surface structure providing the desired phase modulation, e.g. a surface etched structure, or a lenslet array, a ball lens, a semi-ball lens, an aspheric lens or a lens that is not circular symmetric, an-amorphic optics, mirrors that are deformed to provide the desired phase modulation, a refractive phase plate, a GRIN (graded index) material, beamspli
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may comprise a spatial light modulator.
- the spatial light modulator may comprise resolution elements (x, y), each resolution element (x, y) modulating the phase and/or the amplitude of electromagnetic radiation incident upon it with a predetermined complex value a(x, y)e 1 ⁇ x, y), i.e. the amplitude of the electromagnetic field incident upon the resolution element (x, y) is multiplied by a(x, y) and ⁇ (x, y) is added to the corresponding phase.
- a(x, y)e 1 ⁇ x, y i.e. the amplitude of the electromagnetic field incident upon the resolution element (x, y) is multiplied by a(x, y) and ⁇ (x, y) is added to the corresponding phase.
- the amplitude modulation a(x, y) may be set to unity to obtain a phase modulation, and ⁇ (x, y) may be sot to zero to obtain an amplitude modulation, Further, the spatial light modulator may modulate the polarization of the incoming electromagnetic field by selectively modulating vector components of the field individually by each resolution element (x, y).
- Each resolution element may be addressed either optically or electrically.
- the electrical addressing technique resembles the addressing technique of solid-state memories in that each resolution element can be addressed through electronic circuitry to receive a control signal corresponding to the phase and/or amplitude change to be generated by the addressed resolution element.
- the optical addressing technique addresses each resolution element by pointing a light beam on it, the intensity of the light beam corresponding to the modulation change to be generated by the resolution element illuminated by the light beam.
- the Spatial light modulator may be a fixed phase mask, a liquid crystal device based on liquid crystal display technology, a MEMS (micro electromechanical system), a MOEMS (micro opto-electro-mechanical system), such as a dynamic mirror device, a digital micro-mirror array, a deformable mirror device, etc, a membrane spatial light modulator, a laser diode array (integrated light source and phase modulator), smart pixel arrays, etc.
- LC-SLM transmitting liquid crystal SLM
- PAL-SLM parallel-aligned liquid crystal
- Hamamatsu Photonics produces a dynamically controllable PAL-SLM with VGA or XGA resolution.
- Texas Instruments produces a Digital Mirror Device (DMD) having an array of mirrors each of which can be tilted between two positions.
- DMD Digital Mirror Device
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may comprise a diffractive optical element (DOE), e.g a holographic optical element (HOE),
- DOE operates on the principle of diffraction
- Traditional optical elements use their shape to bend light.
- DOEs comprise diffractive gratings or fringe patterns that, in response to an incident wave, generate a plurality of electromagnetic waves which recombine to form the desired waves
- a grating or a fringe pattern may be a lattice of point or line scatterers and/or a lattice of similar refractive index modulations.
- DOEs can function as gratings, lenses, aspherics or any other type of optical element. Large optical apertures, light weight and lower cost are the main features of DOEs. They can offer unique optical properties that are not possible with conventional optical elements.
- Diffractive elements are very light, as they are formed in thin films of a few ⁇ m thickness only.
- a diffractive element can be fabricated on any arbitrary shape of the substrate. They can be made to operate over a narrow wavelength band.
- More than one independent interference pattern can be stored in the same recording media without any cross-talk.
- a hologram may be of an absorption type Which produces a change in the amplitude of the reconstruction beam.
- the phase type hologram produces phase changes in the reconstruction beam due to a variation in the refractive index or thickness of the medium.
- Phase holograms have the advantage over amplitude holograms of no energy dissipation within the hologram medium and higher diffraction efficiency.
- Holograms recorded in photographic emulsions change both the amplitude and the phase of the illuminating wave.
- the shape of the recorded fringe planes depend on the relative phase of the interfering beams.
- a volume (thick) hologram may be regarded as a superposition of three-dimensional gratings recorded in the depth of the emulsion each satisfying the Bragg condition.
- the grating planes in a volume hologram produce maximum change in refractive index and/or absorption index.
- a consequence of Bragg condition is that the volume hologram reconstructs the virtual image at the original position of the object if the reconstruction beam exactly coincides with the reference beam. However, the conjugate image and higher order diffractions are absent.
- Holographic optical elements may comprise interferometrically generated holograms.
- computer-generated holograms including kinoforms, E-beam written holograms, edge-illuminated holograms, waveguide coupled holograms, deep surface relief holograms, micro-machined holograms, and Fresnel zone plates.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the general principle of present invention
- FIG. 2 shows a 4 f optical system for electromagnetic field conversion in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 3 shows another 4 f optical system for electromagnetic field conversion in accordance with the present invention
- FIG. 4 schematically shows a combination of the system illustrated in FIG. 3 with the system illustrated in FIG., 11 ,
- FIG. 5 schematically shows the microstructure of an exemplary photonic crystal fiber
- FIG. 6 schematically shows the cross-sectional phase distribution of a propagating mode of the photonic crystal fiber of FIG. 5.
- FIGS. 7, 8 illustrate utilization of an analog hologram as a complex spatial electronmagnetic field converter
- FIGS. 9, 10 illustrate utilization of a volume hologram as a complex spatial electromagnetic field convertor
- FIG. 11 shows another 4 f optical system wherein the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is positioned in the Fourier plane of the first Fourier transforming lens 5 ,
- FIG. 12 shows an optical system for electromagnetic field conversion with one lens
- FIG. 13 shows a system according to the present invention comprising a plurality of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converters 4 , 4 ′,
- FIG. 14 shows a system according to the present invention integrated into a waveguide module
- FIG. 15 illustrates a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter that is integrated with an end facet of a waveguide.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the general principle of the present invention wherein the first electromagnetic field is generated by superposition of electromagnetic fields emitted from a first set of waveguides 1 , 2 , . . . ,m.
- the system 1 comprising the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter converts the first electromagnetic field into the desired second electromagnetic field that is the superposition of desired propagating modes of a second set of waveguides 1 , 2 , . . . , n.
- the system operates to perform both mode conversion and switching.
- FIG. 2 shows a 4 f optical system 1 for conversion of a first electromagnetic field 6 , namely a light beam emitted by a laser 2 and collimated by the collimator 3 , into a desired second electromagnetic field 8 for propagation through the microstructured waveguide 10 .
- a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 such as a spatial light modulator (SLM), is positioned for reception of the first electromagnetic field 6 that is transmitted through tile complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 and a Fourier transforming lens 5 having a focal length f 1 .
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is positioned in the front focal plane of the lens 5 .
- SLM spatial light modulator
- Another Fourier transforming lens 7 with a focal length f 2 is postioned so that its front focal plane coincides with the back focal plane of lens 5 as is well known in 4 f optical systems.
- the magnification of the system is f 2 /f 1 .
- the converted electromagnetic field 8 is generated in the back focal plane 9 of the lens 7 and input to the microstructured Waveguide 10 . It is seen that the surface of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is imaged onto the end surface of the waveguide 10 by the Fourier transforming lenses 5 , 7 , e.g. (x, y) is imaged onto (x′, y′) at the end of the waveguide 10 .
- each resolution element (x, y) of a spatial light modulator modulates the phase and the amplitude of electromagnetic radiation incident upon it with a predetermined complex value a(x, y)e 1 ⁇ (x, y) . Further the spatial light modulator may modulate the polarization of the incoming electromagnetic field by selectively modulating vector components of the field individually by each resolution element (x, y).
- the values of a(x, y) and ⁇ (x, y) for each vector component are determined from the amplitude and phase values at corresponding positions (x′, y′) at the waveguide end of the desired waveguide mode whereby the collimated electromagnetic field 6 is converted into the desired electromagnetic field 8 that matches a desired mode of the microstructured waveguide 10 .
- the system 1 may be simplified by positioning of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 in the Fourier plane of lens 5 , i.e. the front focal plane of lens 7 , and removal of lens 5 .
- This requires that the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 converts the incoming electromagnetic field 6 into the Fourier transformed field of the desired mode of the waveguide 10 since the lens 7 generates a Fourier transformation of the field at the output surface of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 .
- the resolution, i.e. number of resolution elements, of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 must be much higher than for the 4 f system of FIG. 1.
- the lenses 5 , 7 may be compound lenses, doublets, achromats, f-theta lenses. microscope lenses, microscope objectives, graded-Index lenses, aspherical lenses and/or non-circularly symmetrical lenses, etc. Further, the lenses 5 , 7 may be ball lenses offering a system of a small size.
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 may be a spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a phase-only spatial light modulator (POSLM) wherein the amplitude of the field is not modulated, a complex spatial light modulator modulating amplitude and phase, or a polarization modulator also modifying the field vector components of the electromagnetic field.
- SLM spatial light modulator
- POSLM phase-only spatial light modulator
- polarization modulator also modifying the field vector components of the electromagnetic field.
- the microstructured Waveguide may be an index-guided crystal fiber, photonic band gap crystal fiber, coaxial omniguide, polymer optical fiber, polymer crystal fiber, hole assisted light guide fiber, hollow optical fiber, waveguides in integrated optical circuits, such as photonic crystal based planar waveguides, a slab waveguide structure, etc, a surface plasmon polariton based waveguide, resonators, coupled cavity waveguides, coupling resonator optical waveguides, photonic wire waveguides (i.e. very tightly confined waveguides), couplers, powersplitters, combiners, e.g.
- a microstructured waveguide may transmit an electromagnetic field passively or may form part of an active component, e.g. a rare earth doped fiber amplifier, such as an Er doped fiber amplifier, an Yb doped fiber amplifier, etc, Raman amplifier, Brillouin amplifier, etc.
- an active component e.g. a rare earth doped fiber amplifier, such as an Er doped fiber amplifier, an Yb doped fiber amplifier, etc, Raman amplifier, Brillouin amplifier, etc.
- FIG. 3 shows a 4 f optical system similar to the system shown in FIG. 2, however in FIG. 3 the electromagnetic field 6 to be converted is emitted by a microstructured waveguide 10 .
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is adapted to convert the mode of the microstructured waveguide 10 into the mode of the single mode step index fiber 12 ,
- the single mode step index fiber 12 may be substituted with any of the fibers mentioned above.
- FIG. 4 combines the system illustrated in FIG. 3 with the system illustrated in FIG. 11 whereby system requirements of each of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converters may be lowered compared to the previously illustrated systems.
- POSLMs may be used For provision of both amplitude and phase modulation.
- FIG. 5 schematically shows the microstructure of an exemplary photonic band gap crystal fiber
- FIG. 6 schematically shows the cross-sectional phase distribution of a propagating mode of the photonic band gap crystal fiber, it is seen that in this case the phase changes sign six times as a function of the angular position in a cross-section of the fiber.
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is dynamically adjustable.
- the resolution elements (x, y) of a spatial light modulator may be addressed so that the modulating values of a(x, y) and ⁇ (x, y) can be adjusted.
- the modulation pattern a(x, y)e 1 ⁇ (x, y) of the spatial light modulator may be rotated until its phase pattern coincides with the phase pattern of the mode of the waveguide 10 either in the case wherein the first electromagnetic field 6 is emitted by the waveguide 10 or wherein the converted second field is coupled into the waveguide 10 .
- the modulation pattern may be adjusted to selectively match different desired modes of the waveguide 10 , or a desired mode may selectively be turned on or off with a powerful suppression of possible other modes if desired.
- Fibers may be provided with propagating modes with an arbitrary number of phase changes radially and tangentially across a cross-section of the fiber.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate utilization of an analog hologram as a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter.
- light 14 of a desired mode of a microstructured waveguide 10 is emitted from the end of the waveguide 10 and is collimated by the lens 20 and impinges on the surface of the hologram 22 for interference with a collimated reference beam 24 .
- the reference beam may be emitted by a semiconductor laser, by another microstructured waveguide, a conventional optical fiber, etc.
- the desired mode is excited in the waveguide 10 by emitting a conjugated reference beam 26 towards the hologram 22 whereby the collimated electromagnetic field 16 of the desired mode is regenerated for coupling into the waveguide 10 .
- the fringe pattern of the hologram 22 may be computer generated thus, eliminating the need for the optical recording set-up illustrated in FIG. 7.
- FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate utilization of a volume hologram 22 as a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter.
- light 14 of a desired mode of a microstructured waveguide 10 is emitted from the end of the waveguide 10 and is collimated by the lens 20 and impinges on the hologram 22 for interference with a collimated reference beam 241 .
- Different desired modes of the waveguide 10 may be recorded on the volume hologram 22 with different respective reference beams 24 1 , 24 z , . . . , 24 n .
- the reference beam may be emitted by a semiconductor laser, by another microstructured waveguide, a conventional optical fiber, etc.
- one of the desired modes is selectively excited in the waveguide 10 by emitting the corresponding conjugated reference beam 26 i towards the hologram 22 whereby the collimated electromagnetic field 16 of the desired mode is regenerated for coupling into the waveguide 10 .
- electromagnetic field converting fringe patterns may be combined with other functional fringe patterns, such as beam splitting fringe patterns.
- the incoming field 6 may be generated by several waveguides, and likewise the converted electromagnetic field may be directed towards a plurality of waveguides and, in combination with such a diffractive optical element, waveguide couplers, switches, etc. may be provided.
- a dynamic optical element that is recorded in a dynamically rewriteable medium may provide dynamic switching between waveguides.
- FIG. 11 shows another 4 f optical system wherein the electromagnetic field 6 to be converted is emitted by a microstructured waveguide 10 , and the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is postioned in the Fourier plane of the first Fourier transforming lens 5 which coincides with the front focal plane of second lens 7 .
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 multiples the collimated electromagnetic field with a filter function a(x, y)e 1 ⁇ (x, y) that has been predetermined so that the Fourier transformed of the Fourier transformed incoming field 6 times the filter function matches the desired mode of the coaxial omniguide 30 .
- the coaxial omniguide may be replaced by a detector, and the filter function of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 may be a correlator function providing a peak output when the incoming collimated field 6 matches the correlator function.
- the filter function of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 may be a correlator function providing a peak output when the incoming collimated field 6 matches the correlator function.
- This may be utilized in waveguide sensing systems wherein the propagating mode of the waveguide 10 is changed in response to a specific influence. The change may be detected utilizing an appropriate correlator function, e.g. In relation to detection of strain, rotation, tilt, off-set, temperature, etc.
- hollow core waveguides such as air core photonic crystal fibers, hole assisted light guide fibers, single hole core doped fibers, etc, this may be utilized for detection of presence of specific substances, pressure detection, etc.
- the electromagnetic field 6 to be converted is emitted by a microstructured waveguide 10 .
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the waveguide 10 .
- the electromagnetic field 6 emitted by the waveguide broadens into an expanded region as it emerges from the waveguide.
- a focusing lens 1 focuses the field into the coaxial omniguide 30 .
- FIG. 13 shows a system according to the present invention comprising a plurality of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converters 4 , 4 ′.
- the electromagnetic field emitted by a microstructured waveguide 10 is collimated by lens 5 and then it passes through two complex spatial electromagnetic field converters 4 , 4 ′ and is finally focused by lens 7 into the coaxial omniguide 30 .
- FIG. 14 schematically shows a system according to the present invention integrated into a waveguide module.
- the integration is provided utilizing GRIN lenses 34 and a micro-hologram 35 .
- All of the previously suggested systems may be integrated in one waveguide coupling module, such as a flip-flop module for a wafer with integrated waveguide(s), or, a fiber coupling module that may be fused to e.g. optical fibers, etc.
- FIG. 15 illustrates a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 38 that is integrated with the end facet 36 of the microstructured waveguide 10 or alternatively, with the end facet of the single mode fiber 32 .
- the converter 38 is shown separated from the end facet 36 for clarity only.
- the converter 38 is postioned at the end facet 36 , and the microstructured fiber 10 and the single mode fiber 32 are fused together. e.g. by gluing.
- the phase variations 37 of the mode propagating through the microstructured fiber 10 is illustrated at the end facet 36 in the same way as in FIG. 6.
- the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 38 is adapted to convert the mode of the microstructured waveguide 10 into the mode of the single mode step index fiber 32 .
- phase shift of the converter 38 is equal to ⁇ , i.e. the difference in travelling distance of an electromagnetic field propagating through an area marked with ⁇ and an electromagnetic field propagating through a surrounding area is half a wavelength.
- a specific substance e.g. the substance of the microstructured fiber 10 may be deposited onto the and facet 36 of the fiber 10 , or, the fiber 32 , with a height profile that provides the phase shifts needed for the desired electromagnetic field conversion.
- a stepped height profile is indicated but it is obvious that a height profile of any desired shape may be provided. Since the height is small, i.e. on the order of half a wavelength, the height profile does not mechanically influence the fusing of the two fibers 10 , 32 . Alternatively, a fiber may be cleaved to provide the desired height profile at the end facet of the fiber.
- the desired conversion may also be provided by provision of a material with a desired refractive index profile at the end facet of th fiber in question without changing the surface of the end facet, i.e. without a height or a depth profile, for example by doping of the material at the end facet.
- the desired phase shifting may also be provided by removal, e.g. etching, of material from the end facet 37 of the microstructured fiber 10 , or, from the end facet of the fiber 32 , with a depth profile providing the desired phase shift.
- the added or removed material may have a desired refractive index profile and may be birefringent so that, in combination with a desired height or depth profile, any desired phase, amplitude, and polarization conversion may be provided.
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- The present invention relates to a system for conversion of a first electromagnetic field to a desired second electromagnetic field, for example for coupling of an electromagnetic field into an electromagnetic waveguide.
- In order to couple light emitted by a light emitting diode or a semiconductor laser into an optical fiber, such as a single mode fiber, it is well known to use a butt coupling or a lens coupling. The butt coupling is a direct coupling Wherein the fiber is brought close to the light source. The butt coupling provides only about 10% efficiency for a laser, as it makes no attempt to match the mode sizes of the laser and the fiber. For example, the laser mode size may be about 1 μm and the mode size of a single mode fiber may be in the range 6-9 μm. The coupling efficiency may be Improved by tapering the fiber end and forming a lens at the fiber tip.
- In a lens coupling design, the coupling efficiency can exceed 70% for a confocal design in which a sphere is used to collimate the laser light and focus it onto the fiber core. The alignment of the fiber core is less critical for the confocal design because the spot size is matched to the fiber's mode size.
- These coupling approaches are well suited for excitation of first order modes in optical fibers since the phase of a first order mode does not vary over the fiber cross-section, rather it fits with an electromagnetic field with a symmetric phase and amplitude wave front, such as the electromagnetic field in a light beam emitted by a laser. The phase distribution of a second-order mode, however, is usually symmetric in magnitude but changes sign about a symmetry axis of the fiber, and for higher order modes the phases change sign several times across the cross-section of the fiber. In order to excite higher order modes, the incident electromagnetic beam is typically focused on a part of the cross-section of the fiber, namely an area within which the phase does not change sign. This limits the obtainable coupling efficiency to a value that is roughly equal to the ratio between the illuminated area and the total cross-sectional area of the fiber core. This may be seen by the overlap integral (or inner product) between the two mode plots.
- In “Selective launching of higher-order modes into an optical fiber with an optical phase shifter”, by W. Q. Thornburg, B. J. Corrado, and X. D. Zhu, Optics Letters, vol.19, No. 7, Apr. 1, 1994, a coupling approach is disclosed for exciting a second order mode in a weakly guided, cylindrically symmetric step-index fiber by phase shifting one bisection of the beam so that polarization and phase front of the incident beam matches the desired mode.
- As for example disclosed in “Crystal fibre technology”, Jes Broeng, Stig E. Barkou, Anders Bjarklev, Thomas Søndergaard, and Erik Knudsen, DOPS-NYT 2-2000, and “Waveguidance by the photonic band gap effect in optical fibres”, Jes Broeng, Stig E. Barkou, Anders Bjarklev, Thomas Søndergaard, and Pablo M Barbeito, recently, a new approach of making optical fibers has been invented by Professor Philip Russell and his team at the Department of Physics at the University of Bath. In an optical fiber produced according to the new approach, bundles of microscopic dielectric pipes extend along a longitudinal axis of the fiber. Thus, a cross-section of the fiber exhibits holes arranged in an array like atoms in a crystal, hence the name crystal fibers also known as microstructured or holey fibers. The dielectric may be silica, doped silica, polymers, etc.
- In index-guided crystal fibers, one or more holes are missing at the center of the array. Without the holes, the glass at the center has a higher density than its surroundings, and light entering the center, i.e. the core, is therefore confined much as it would be in a conventional fiber. The advantage is that the effect is achieved without necessarily having to use two different kinds of glass. An added benefit is that the light can be squeezed into a much narrower core than is the case in conventional fibers, or large mode area single mode fibers can be made. There is a great taylorability of mode size and general mode properties in a photonic crystal fiber (PCF).
- In photonic crystal fibers operating by photonic band gap effect (PBG fibers), the holes are arranged in a photonic crystal with band gaps wherein no modes can propagate through tho fiber. By locally breaking the periodicity of the photonic crystal, a spatial region with optical properties different from the surrounding bulk photonic crystal can be created. If such a defect region supports modes with frequencies falling inside the forbidden gap of the surrounding full-periodic microstructure, these modes will be strongly confined to the defect. It is important to note that it is not a requirement that the defect region has a higher index than its surroundings. If the surrounding material exhibits photonic band gap effects, even a low-index defect region is able to confine light and thereby act as a highly unusual waveguide. The defect may be an air filled tube that may provide—in theory—no loss guidance over long distances.
- It has been shown that photonic crystal fibers may support single mode operation in a larger wavelength range than conventional fibers. e.g. from UV light to mid-infrared wavelengths, i.e. the entire wavelength range where silica can be used, and that photonic crystal fibers can be designed with a very flat near-zero dispersion over a very broad wavelength range. Further, photonic crystal fibers may be produced with very large positive dispersion for single-mode operation, This may be utilized for dispersion management in fiber systems with negative dispersion or vice versa.
- Photonic crystals are structures having a periodic variation in dielectric constant. The dielectric may be silica, doped silica, polymers, etc. By fabricating photonic crystals having specific periodicities, the properties of the photonic band gap can be designed to specific applications. For example, the central wavelength of a photonic band gap is approximately equal to (in order of magnitude) the periodicity of the photonic crystal and the width of the photonic band gap is proportional to the differences in dielectric constant within the photonic crystals, For a general reference, see: J. D. Joannopoulos et al., Photontic Crystals, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1995. By inclusion of defects with respect to their periodicity in photonic crystals, a localized electromagnetic mode having a frequency within a photonic band gap may be supported. For example, in a three-dimensional photonic crystal formed by dielectric spheres at the sites of a diamond lattice, the absence of a sphere produces a defect In the immediate vicinity of the absent sphere, the photonic crystal is no longer periodic, and a localized electromagnetic mode having a frequency within the photonic band gap can exist. This defect mode cannot propagate away from the absent void, it is localized in the vicinity of the defect. Thus, the introduction of a defect into the photonic crystal creates a resonant cavity, i.e. a region of the crystal that confines electromagnetic radiation having a specific frequency within the region. A series of defects can be combined to form a waveguide within the photonic crystal. Such waveguides in photonic crystals can include sharp turns, such as 9° bends substantially without loss. For example, U.S. Pat. No. 5,526,449 discloses waveguides based on photonic crystals for incorporation into opto-electronic integrated circuits.
- The crystal fibers previously mentioned are examples of two-dimensional photonic crystals with electromagnetic mode supporting defects. A large variety of design options is available to the designer of crystal fibers. By careful selection of preform tube geometry, tube density, tube positions, and utilization of tubes of different types in the same fiber, the designer can provide waveguides with desired characteristics, such as transmission loss, dispersion, non-linearity, mode structure, micro- and macro-bend loss, etc. Examples of various designs are disclosed in WO 99/64903, WO 99/64904, and WO 00/60390.
- Examples of one-dimensional photonic crystals are given in U.S. Pat. No. 6,130,780 disclosing an omni-directional reflector with a surface and a refractive index variation along the direction perpendicular to the surface so that a range of frequencies exists defining a photonic band gap for electromagnetic energy incident along the perpendicular direction to the surface The structure further fulfils a criterion by which no propagating states may couple to an incident wave and thus the dielectric structure acts as a perfect reflector in a given frequency range for all incident angles and polarizations.
- In WO 00/65386, an all-dielectric coaxial waveguide is disclosed that is designated a coaxial omniguide and that is based on the omni-directional dielectric reflector disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,130,780. The radial confinement of the light in the coaxial omniguide is a consequence of omni-directional reflection and not total internal reflection. This means that the coaxial omniguide can be used to transmit light around much sharper corners than the optical fiber. Also, the radial decay of the electromagnetic field in the coaxial omniguide is much greater than in the case of the optical fiber so that the outer diameter of the coaxial omniguide can be much smaller than the diameter of the cladding layer of the optical flber without leading to cross-talk.
- In the following a microstructured waveguide designates a one-, two- or three-dimensional photonic crystal with defects for propagation of an electromagnetic field and optionally with interstitial voids, such as index-guided crystal fibers, photonic band gap crystal fibers, coaxial omniguides, polymer optical fibers, polymer crystal fibers, hole assisted light guide fibers (e.g. as disclosed in “Modeling and design optimization of hole-assisted lightguide fiber by full-vector finite element method”, by T. Hasegawa et. al. Proc. 27th Eur. Conf. On Opt Comm. ECOC'01 —Amsterdam), hollow optical fiber (e.g. as disclosed in “A new mode converter based on hollow optical fiber for gigabit LAN communication”, S. Choi et. al., Proc. 27th Eur. Conf On Opt. Comm., ECOC'01 —Amsterdam), waveguides in integrated optical circuits, such as photonic crystal based planar waveguides, a slab waveguide structure, etc, a surface plasmon polariton based waveguide, resonators, coupled cavity waveguides, coupling resonator optical waveguides, photonic Wire waveguides (ie. very tightly confined waveguides), couplers, power spiltters, combiners, e.g. 3 dB couplers, etc. A microstructured waveguide may transmit an electromagnetic field passively, or may form part of an active component, e.g. a rare earth doped fiber amplifier, such as an Er doped fiber amplifier, an Yb doped fiber amplifier, etc, a Raman amplifier, a Brilouin amplifier, etc.
- When a desired mode propagating through a microstructured waveguide is of a high order, the phase of the propagating electromagnetic field or wave changes sign at least once across the cross-section of the waveguide. As previously described, such a mode is typically excited by focusing an incident light beam on an area of the waveguide end within which the phase does not change its sign.
- Thus, there is a need for a coupling approach that can excite a desired mode in a microstructured waveguide with a high coupling efficiency. There is also a need for a system that excites a desired mode without exciting other modes, i.e. to Suppress other modes than the desired one while still keeping an efficient coupling to the desired mode.
- Likewise, there is a need for an approach of converting a high order mode emitted from a microstructured waveguide to a mode that matches a mode in a conventional waveguide, such as a single mode step index fiber, a graded index fiber, such as a parabolic index fiber, e.g. a multimode parabolic index fiber.
- According to the present invention this and other objects are fulfilled by utilization of a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter for conversion of a given first electromagnetic field into a desired second electromagnetic field.
- At least one of the fields may match a mode of a microstructured waveguide.
- For example, the first electromagnetic field may be emitted from an output end of the microstructured waveguide.
- For example, a light beam emitted by a semiconductor laser may be converted into a second electromagnetic field that matches a mode of a microstructured waveguide.
- In the present disclosure, an electromagnetic field is said to match a mode of a microstructured waveguide when the electromagnetic field in question can excite the mode of the waveguide with a coupling efficiency that exceeds the ratio between an area of the cross-section of the waveguide within which the phase of the mode in question does not change its sign and the entire cross-section of propagating region of the waveguide.
- In a preferred embodiment of the invention the matching field is substantially equal to the field of the mode in question.
- It is an important advantage of the present invention that the full effect of an incident light beam may be utilized for exciting a desired mode of a specific waveguide since the illumination of the waveguide end is no longer required to be confined to a part of the waveguide end within which the phase of the mode in question does not change its sign.
- It is another Important advantage that the power of the incident beam may be coupled into one specific mode and not others whereby a high mode suppression ratio may be achieved.
- The electromagnetic radiation may be of any frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum, i.e. the gamma frequency range, the ultraviolet range, the visible range, the infrared range, the telecommunication band or bands, the far infrared range, the X-ray range, the microwave range, the HF (high frequency) range, etc.
- Preferably, the electromagnetic radiation is generated by a coherent source of electromagnetic radiation, such as a laser, a semi-conductor laser, a strained multi-quantum well laser, a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a maser, a phase-locked laser diode array, a light emitting diode, a pulsed laser, such as a sub-picosecond laser, etc. However a high pressure arc lamp, such as a Hg lamp, a Xe lamp etc, may also be used and even an incandescent lamp may be used as a source of electromagnetic radiation.
- The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may modulate an impinging field by reflection, refraction, or diffraction or any combination hereof, Further, the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may modulate phase, amplitude, polarization, or mode field diameter, or any combination hereof.
- The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may comprise a refractive element, such as a refractive element with a surface structure providing the desired phase modulation, e.g. a surface etched structure, or a lenslet array, a ball lens, a semi-ball lens, an aspheric lens or a lens that is not circular symmetric, an-amorphic optics, mirrors that are deformed to provide the desired phase modulation, a refractive phase plate, a GRIN (graded index) material, beamsplitter, etc.
- The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may comprise a spatial light modulator.
- The spatial light modulator may comprise resolution elements (x, y), each resolution element (x, y) modulating the phase and/or the amplitude of electromagnetic radiation incident upon it with a predetermined complex value a(x, y)e1Φx, y), i.e. the amplitude of the electromagnetic field incident upon the resolution element (x, y) is multiplied by a(x, y) and Φ(x, y) is added to the corresponding phase. The amplitude modulation a(x, y) may be set to unity to obtain a phase modulation, and Φ(x, y) may be sot to zero to obtain an amplitude modulation, Further, the spatial light modulator may modulate the polarization of the incoming electromagnetic field by selectively modulating vector components of the field individually by each resolution element (x, y).
- Each resolution element may be addressed either optically or electrically. The electrical addressing technique resembles the addressing technique of solid-state memories in that each resolution element can be addressed through electronic circuitry to receive a control signal corresponding to the phase and/or amplitude change to be generated by the addressed resolution element. The optical addressing technique addresses each resolution element by pointing a light beam on it, the intensity of the light beam corresponding to the modulation change to be generated by the resolution element illuminated by the light beam.
- The Spatial light modulator (SLM) may be a fixed phase mask, a liquid crystal device based on liquid crystal display technology, a MEMS (micro electromechanical system), a MOEMS (micro opto-electro-mechanical system), such as a dynamic mirror device, a digital micro-mirror array, a deformable mirror device, etc, a membrane spatial light modulator, a laser diode array (integrated light source and phase modulator), smart pixel arrays, etc.
- Selko-Epson produces a transmitting liquid crystal SLM (LC-SLM) having a high resolution matrix of transparent liquid crystal elements wherein the relative permittivity of each element can be electrically modulated in order to vary the refractive index and thereby the optical path length of the element. Meadowlark produces a parallel-aligned liquid crystal (PAL-SLM) with a high fill factor, but this device has a very low resolution in that it contains only 137 phase-modulating elements.
- Hamamatsu Photonics produces a dynamically controllable PAL-SLM with VGA or XGA resolution.
- Texas Instruments produces a Digital Mirror Device (DMD) having an array of mirrors each of which can be tilted between two positions.
- The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter may comprise a diffractive optical element (DOE), e.g a holographic optical element (HOE), A DOE operates on the principle of diffraction, Traditional optical elements use their shape to bend light. DOEs comprise diffractive gratings or fringe patterns that, in response to an incident wave, generate a plurality of electromagnetic waves which recombine to form the desired waves A grating or a fringe pattern may be a lattice of point or line scatterers and/or a lattice of similar refractive index modulations.
- DOEs can function as gratings, lenses, aspherics or any other type of optical element. Large optical apertures, light weight and lower cost are the main features of DOEs. They can offer unique optical properties that are not possible with conventional optical elements.
- Several different optical elements can share the same substrate without interfering with one another, Thus, a single DOE can be used as a lens, beam splitter and spectral filter simultaneously.
- Diffractive elements are very light, as they are formed in thin films of a few μm thickness only. A diffractive element can be fabricated on any arbitrary shape of the substrate. They can be made to operate over a narrow wavelength band.
- The fabrication and replication of DOEs are relatively easy and cheap because no precision shaping of a surface is required.
- By using real-time recyclable recording media, any desired system function can be recorded and erased repeatedly.
- In traditional holography an interference between an object beam and a reference beam is created and recorded on a photographic emulsion.
- More than one independent interference pattern can be stored in the same recording media without any cross-talk.
- A hologram may be of an absorption type Which produces a change in the amplitude of the reconstruction beam. The phase type hologram produces phase changes in the reconstruction beam due to a variation in the refractive index or thickness of the medium. Phase holograms have the advantage over amplitude holograms of no energy dissipation within the hologram medium and higher diffraction efficiency. Holograms recorded in photographic emulsions change both the amplitude and the phase of the illuminating wave. The shape of the recorded fringe planes depend on the relative phase of the interfering beams.
- A volume (thick) hologram may be regarded as a superposition of three-dimensional gratings recorded in the depth of the emulsion each satisfying the Bragg condition. The grating planes in a volume hologram produce maximum change in refractive index and/or absorption index. A consequence of Bragg condition is that the volume hologram reconstructs the virtual image at the original position of the object if the reconstruction beam exactly coincides with the reference beam. However, the conjugate image and higher order diffractions are absent.
- Holographic optical elements may comprise interferometrically generated holograms. computer-generated holograms including kinoforms, E-beam written holograms, edge-illuminated holograms, waveguide coupled holograms, deep surface relief holograms, micro-machined holograms, and Fresnel zone plates.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the general principle of present invention,
- FIG. 2 shows a4 f optical system for electromagnetic field conversion in accordance with the present invention,
- FIG. 3 shows another4 f optical system for electromagnetic field conversion in accordance with the present invention,
- FIG. 4 schematically shows a combination of the system illustrated in FIG. 3 with the system illustrated in FIG.,11,
- FIG. 5 schematically shows the microstructure of an exemplary photonic crystal fiber,
- FIG. 6 schematically shows the cross-sectional phase distribution of a propagating mode of the photonic crystal fiber of FIG. 5.
- FIGS. 7, 8 illustrate utilization of an analog hologram as a complex spatial electronmagnetic field converter,
- FIGS. 9, 10 illustrate utilization of a volume hologram as a complex spatial electromagnetic field convertor,
- FIG. 11 shows another4 f optical system wherein the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is positioned in the Fourier plane of the first
Fourier transforming lens 5, - FIG. 12 shows an optical system for electromagnetic field conversion with one lens,
- FIG. 13 shows a system according to the present invention comprising a plurality of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converters4, 4′,
- FIG. 14 shows a system according to the present invention integrated into a waveguide module, and
- FIG. 15 illustrates a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter that is integrated with an end facet of a waveguide.
- FIG. 1 illustrates the general principle of the present invention wherein the first electromagnetic field is generated by superposition of electromagnetic fields emitted from a first set of
waveguides system 1 comprising the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter converts the first electromagnetic field into the desired second electromagnetic field that is the superposition of desired propagating modes of a second set ofwaveguides - FIG. 2 shows a4 f
optical system 1 for conversion of a firstelectromagnetic field 6, namely a light beam emitted by alaser 2 and collimated by the collimator 3, into a desired secondelectromagnetic field 8 for propagation through themicrostructured waveguide 10. A complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4, such as a spatial light modulator (SLM), is positioned for reception of the firstelectromagnetic field 6 that is transmitted through tile complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 and aFourier transforming lens 5 having a focal length f1. The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is positioned in the front focal plane of thelens 5. AnotherFourier transforming lens 7 with a focal length f2 is postioned so that its front focal plane coincides with the back focal plane oflens 5 as is well known in 4 f optical systems. The magnification of the system is f2/f1. The convertedelectromagnetic field 8 is generated in the backfocal plane 9 of thelens 7 and input to themicrostructured Waveguide 10. It is seen that the surface of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is imaged onto the end surface of thewaveguide 10 by theFourier transforming lenses waveguide 10. As previously described, each resolution element (x, y) of a spatial light modulator modulates the phase and the amplitude of electromagnetic radiation incident upon it with a predetermined complex value a(x, y)e1Φ(x, y). Further the spatial light modulator may modulate the polarization of the incoming electromagnetic field by selectively modulating vector components of the field individually by each resolution element (x, y). Thus, the values of a(x, y) and φ(x, y) for each vector component are determined from the amplitude and phase values at corresponding positions (x′, y′) at the waveguide end of the desired waveguide mode whereby the collimatedelectromagnetic field 6 is converted into the desiredelectromagnetic field 8 that matches a desired mode of themicrostructured waveguide 10. - The
system 1 may be simplified by positioning of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 in the Fourier plane oflens 5, i.e. the front focal plane oflens 7, and removal oflens 5. This requires that the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 converts the incomingelectromagnetic field 6 into the Fourier transformed field of the desired mode of thewaveguide 10 since thelens 7 generates a Fourier transformation of the field at the output surface of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4. In this case the resolution, i.e. number of resolution elements, of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 must be much higher than for the 4 f system of FIG. 1. - The
lenses lenses - The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter4 may be a spatial light modulator (SLM), such as a phase-only spatial light modulator (POSLM) wherein the amplitude of the field is not modulated, a complex spatial light modulator modulating amplitude and phase, or a polarization modulator also modifying the field vector components of the electromagnetic field.
- The microstructured Waveguide may be an index-guided crystal fiber, photonic band gap crystal fiber, coaxial omniguide, polymer optical fiber, polymer crystal fiber, hole assisted light guide fiber, hollow optical fiber, waveguides in integrated optical circuits, such as photonic crystal based planar waveguides, a slab waveguide structure, etc, a surface plasmon polariton based waveguide, resonators, coupled cavity waveguides, coupling resonator optical waveguides, photonic wire waveguides (i.e. very tightly confined waveguides), couplers, powersplitters, combiners, e.g. 3 dB couplers, etc, A microstructured waveguide may transmit an electromagnetic field passively or may form part of an active component, e.g. a rare earth doped fiber amplifier, such as an Er doped fiber amplifier, an Yb doped fiber amplifier, etc, Raman amplifier, Brillouin amplifier, etc.
- It is obvious that other systems according to the present invention may be designed with optical components in Fresnel planes.
- FIG. 3 shows a4 f optical system similar to the system shown in FIG. 2, however in FIG. 3 the
electromagnetic field 6 to be converted is emitted by amicrostructured waveguide 10. The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is adapted to convert the mode of themicrostructured waveguide 10 into the mode of the single modestep index fiber 12, Of course the single modestep index fiber 12 may be substituted with any of the fibers mentioned above. - FIG. 4 combines the system illustrated in FIG. 3 with the system illustrated in FIG. 11 whereby system requirements of each of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converters may be lowered compared to the previously illustrated systems. For example, POSLMs may be used For provision of both amplitude and phase modulation.
- FIG. 5 schematically shows the microstructure of an exemplary photonic band gap crystal fiber, and FIG. 6 schematically shows the cross-sectional phase distribution of a propagating mode of the photonic band gap crystal fiber, it is seen that in this case the phase changes sign six times as a function of the angular position in a cross-section of the fiber. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter4 is dynamically adjustable. For example, the resolution elements (x, y) of a spatial light modulator may be addressed so that the modulating values of a(x, y) and Φ(x, y) can be adjusted. In this way the modulation pattern a(x, y)e1Φ(x, y) of the spatial light modulator may be rotated until its phase pattern coincides with the phase pattern of the mode of the
waveguide 10 either in the case wherein the firstelectromagnetic field 6 is emitted by thewaveguide 10 or wherein the converted second field is coupled into thewaveguide 10. Also the modulation pattern may be adjusted to selectively match different desired modes of thewaveguide 10, or a desired mode may selectively be turned on or off with a powerful suppression of possible other modes if desired. - It should be noted that the illustrated propagating mode of FIG. 4 is an example. Fibers may be provided with propagating modes with an arbitrary number of phase changes radially and tangentially across a cross-section of the fiber.
- FIGS. 7 and 8 illustrate utilization of an analog hologram as a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter. In FIG. 7,
light 14 of a desired mode of amicrostructured waveguide 10 is emitted from the end of thewaveguide 10 and is collimated by thelens 20 and impinges on the surface of thehologram 22 for interference with acollimated reference beam 24. The reference beam may be emitted by a semiconductor laser, by another microstructured waveguide, a conventional optical fiber, etc. In FIG. 8, the desired mode is excited in thewaveguide 10 by emitting aconjugated reference beam 26 towards thehologram 22 whereby the collimatedelectromagnetic field 16 of the desired mode is regenerated for coupling into thewaveguide 10. Obviously, the fringe pattern of thehologram 22 may be computer generated thus, eliminating the need for the optical recording set-up illustrated in FIG. 7. - FIGS. 9 and 10 illustrate utilization of a
volume hologram 22 as a complex spatial electromagnetic field converter. In FIG. 9,light 14 of a desired mode of amicrostructured waveguide 10 is emitted from the end of thewaveguide 10 and is collimated by thelens 20 and impinges on thehologram 22 for interference with a collimated reference beam 241. Different desired modes of thewaveguide 10 may be recorded on thevolume hologram 22 with different respective reference beams 24 1, 24 z, . . . , 24 n. Again, the reference beam may be emitted by a semiconductor laser, by another microstructured waveguide, a conventional optical fiber, etc. In FIG. 10, one of the desired modes is selectively excited in thewaveguide 10 by emitting the correspondingconjugated reference beam 26 i towards thehologram 22 whereby the collimatedelectromagnetic field 16 of the desired mode is regenerated for coupling into thewaveguide 10. - In a diffractive optical element, electromagnetic field converting fringe patterns may be combined with other functional fringe patterns, such as beam splitting fringe patterns. Thus, the
incoming field 6 may be generated by several waveguides, and likewise the converted electromagnetic field may be directed towards a plurality of waveguides and, in combination with such a diffractive optical element, waveguide couplers, switches, etc. may be provided. A dynamic optical element that is recorded in a dynamically rewriteable medium may provide dynamic switching between waveguides. - FIG. 11 shows another4 f optical system wherein the
electromagnetic field 6 to be converted is emitted by amicrostructured waveguide 10, and the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is postioned in the Fourier plane of the firstFourier transforming lens 5 which coincides with the front focal plane ofsecond lens 7. The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 multiples the collimated electromagnetic field with a filter function a(x, y)e1Φ(x, y) that has been predetermined so that the Fourier transformed of the Fourier transformedincoming field 6 times the filter function matches the desired mode of thecoaxial omniguide 30. - In FIG. 11, the coaxial omniguide may be replaced by a detector, and the filter function of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converter4 may be a correlator function providing a peak output when the incoming collimated
field 6 matches the correlator function. This may be utilized in waveguide sensing systems wherein the propagating mode of thewaveguide 10 is changed in response to a specific influence. The change may be detected utilizing an appropriate correlator function, e.g. In relation to detection of strain, rotation, tilt, off-set, temperature, etc. In hollow core waveguides, such as air core photonic crystal fibers, hole assisted light guide fibers, single hole core doped fibers, etc, this may be utilized for detection of presence of specific substances, pressure detection, etc. - In FIG. 12, the
electromagnetic field 6 to be converted is emitted by amicrostructured waveguide 10. The complex spatial electromagnetic field converter 4 is arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of thewaveguide 10. Theelectromagnetic field 6 emitted by the waveguide broadens into an expanded region as it emerges from the waveguide. When thefield 6 passes through the complex spatial electromagnetic field Converter 4 the amplitude and/or phase is changed. A focusinglens 1 focuses the field into thecoaxial omniguide 30. - FIG. 13 shows a system according to the present invention comprising a plurality of the complex spatial electromagnetic field converters4, 4′. The electromagnetic field emitted by a
microstructured waveguide 10 is collimated bylens 5 and then it passes through two complex spatial electromagnetic field converters 4, 4′ and is finally focused bylens 7 into thecoaxial omniguide 30. - FIG. 14 schematically shows a system according to the present invention integrated into a waveguide module. The integration is provided utilizing
GRIN lenses 34 and a micro-hologram 35. All of the previously suggested systems may be integrated in one waveguide coupling module, such as a flip-flop module for a wafer with integrated waveguide(s), or, a fiber coupling module that may be fused to e.g. optical fibers, etc. - FIG. 15 illustrates a complex spatial
electromagnetic field converter 38 that is integrated with theend facet 36 of themicrostructured waveguide 10 or alternatively, with the end facet of thesingle mode fiber 32. In the figure, theconverter 38 is shown separated from theend facet 36 for clarity only. In an operating system, theconverter 38 is postioned at theend facet 36, and themicrostructured fiber 10 and thesingle mode fiber 32 are fused together. e.g. by gluing. Thephase variations 37 of the mode propagating through themicrostructured fiber 10 is illustrated at theend facet 36 in the same way as in FIG. 6. The complex spatialelectromagnetic field converter 38 is adapted to convert the mode of themicrostructured waveguide 10 into the mode of the single modestep index fiber 32. Thus, light may travel from thesingle mode fiber 32 towards themicrostructured waveguide 10, or, light may travel from themicrostructured waveguide 10 towards thesingle mode fiber 32. In the illustrated example, the phase shift of theconverter 38 is equal to π, i.e. the difference in travelling distance of an electromagnetic field propagating through an area marked with π and an electromagnetic field propagating through a surrounding area is half a wavelength. However, a specific substance, e.g. the substance of themicrostructured fiber 10 may be deposited onto the andfacet 36 of thefiber 10, or, thefiber 32, with a height profile that provides the phase shifts needed for the desired electromagnetic field conversion. In the illustrated example, a stepped height profile is indicated but it is obvious that a height profile of any desired shape may be provided. Since the height is small, i.e. on the order of half a wavelength, the height profile does not mechanically influence the fusing of the twofibers - The desired conversion may also be provided by provision of a material with a desired refractive index profile at the end facet of th fiber in question without changing the surface of the end facet, i.e. without a height or a depth profile, for example by doping of the material at the end facet.
- The desired phase shifting may also be provided by removal, e.g. etching, of material from the
end facet 37 of themicrostructured fiber 10, or, from the end facet of thefiber 32, with a depth profile providing the desired phase shift. Further, the added or removed material may have a desired refractive index profile and may be birefringent so that, in combination with a desired height or depth profile, any desired phase, amplitude, and polarization conversion may be provided.
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